The following outrage

The residents of San Carlos wish to bring her attention to the following outrage: SDG&E is buying drinking water and using huge tanker trucks to haul out upwards of 600,000 gallons per day from the San Carlos area. The trucks hook up to various fire hydrants, fill up these double tankers with our water and haul it out to East county. SDG&E targeted this area because of its close proximity to eastbound Interstate 8. The water is being used for SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink project where it is used for dust control, etc.

Is there no treated wastewater that can be used? Why should such a massive amount of good drinking water be used for this purpose? If there is no other option, City Council should consider increasing substantially the rate charged to SDG&E for this water. This would provide a significant amount of revenue over time to start seriously considering the infrastructure improvements Ms. Lightner has outlined.

Not only is our precious water being wasted, the environmental impact is substantial: increased air pollution from the diesel exhaust; increased traffic through San Carlos; damage to our roadways from these heavy trucks.

If San Diego wishes to use its drinking water in a prudent manner, a change to "business as usual" should be put on the table and discussed in the near future. We cannot afford to wait!

Shirley Heath

San Carlos

Nobody seems to care

Just wondering why nobody seems to care that SDG&E fills 5000 gallon water trucks several times a day from fire hydrants in San Carlos just to spray on the ground for dust control along the Powerlink construction sites.

This is potable water, a scarce and vital resource. Though we may not be hurting at the moment, it is unbelieveably irresponsible to just dump thousands and thousands of gallons on the ground. Don't you folks think?

The Ashley family

La Mesa

Trucks have returned

I live in the Lake Murray area. After the article on the Sunrise power project using city water, the big tanker trucks stopped filling up at the two fire hydrants mentioned/pictured in the article. Unfortunately the tanker trucks have returned. I thought the paperwork to use repurposed water had been approved, and they weren't going to waste city water to keep the dust down.

I was also wondering how the amount of water put into the tanker trucks is measured? Please tell me it isn't the honor system...

On Monday I noticed another tanker truck filling up at the fire hydrant on Navajo and Bisby Lake. The truck was labeled "Docs Water Company." The license number was 9033392, the number on the side of the truck (I assume it is a phone number) was 920-4382. Is the city keeping track of companies helping themselves to city water?

I don't know who to ask at the water department, so I hope you can look into this issue.